Mariana Mousinho

“If patience wasn’t so easily tested, then it would hardly be a virtue. . . ”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“If you don't try, nothing ever changes.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“...-smells and sounds I'd grown up with and known every year of my life until then but that had suddenly turned on me and acquired an inflection forever coloured by the events of the summer.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Not for you,” Lila replies ardently, “you’re my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend